Georges Heinesch writes:
> I couldn't convince the "Backspace" key to perform the action known
> under AmigaOS, deleting the char left of the cursor. No shell or
> editor could do this using this key.

 stty erase ^H

 ^H can normally be specified as two characters ('^' and 'H'), or=20
 as one char (as in: C-v C-h in vi '=08').